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Sex, drugs and young people : international perspectives / edited by Peter Aggleton, Andrew Ball and Purnima Mane.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xii, 224 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415328772
  • 9780415328777
  • 0415328780
  • 9780415328784
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.70835 22
LOC classification:
  • HV5824.Y68 S47 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction / Peter Aggleton, Andrew Ball and Purnima Mane -- 2. Young people, poverty and risk / Kim Rivers, Peter Aggleton and Andrew Ball -- 3. Gender, vulnerability and young people / Rita M. Melendez and Deborah L. Tolman -- 4. Ethnicity, culture, drugs and sex / Carol Jenkins -- 5. Young people, sexual practice and meanings / Deborah Keys, Doreen Rosenthal and Marian Pitts -- 6. Young people and illicit drug use / Neil Hunt -- 7. Drug use among same-sex attracted young people / John Howard and Anthony Arcuri -- 8. Drinking behaviour, coming of age and risk / Sandra Bullock and Robin Room -- 9. Sex, drugs and vulnerability : young people who sell sex and use drugs / Cheryl Overs and Chris Castle -- 10. Young migrants, refugees and displaced people / Mary Haour-Knipe, Linda Eriksson and Danielle Grondin -- 11. Young people, the military, sex and drugs / Martin Foreman -- 12. Young people in detention / Jan Copeland, John Howard and Anthony Arcuri -- 13. Sex, drugs and indigenous young people / Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray and Phillipa Strempel.
Summary: This book calls into question mainstream assumptions about 'adolescence' that underlie many of our understandings in relation to sexual practices and drug use among the young, providing a more complex view of the transition to adulthood viewing it as socially and culturally driven, rather than simply biological.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Peter Aggleton, Andrew Ball and Purnima Mane -- 2. Young people, poverty and risk / Kim Rivers, Peter Aggleton and Andrew Ball -- 3. Gender, vulnerability and young people / Rita M. Melendez and Deborah L. Tolman -- 4. Ethnicity, culture, drugs and sex / Carol Jenkins -- 5. Young people, sexual practice and meanings / Deborah Keys, Doreen Rosenthal and Marian Pitts -- 6. Young people and illicit drug use / Neil Hunt -- 7. Drug use among same-sex attracted young people / John Howard and Anthony Arcuri -- 8. Drinking behaviour, coming of age and risk / Sandra Bullock and Robin Room -- 9. Sex, drugs and vulnerability : young people who sell sex and use drugs / Cheryl Overs and Chris Castle -- 10. Young migrants, refugees and displaced people / Mary Haour-Knipe, Linda Eriksson and Danielle Grondin -- 11. Young people, the military, sex and drugs / Martin Foreman -- 12. Young people in detention / Jan Copeland, John Howard and Anthony Arcuri -- 13. Sex, drugs and indigenous young people / Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray and Phillipa Strempel.

This book calls into question mainstream assumptions about 'adolescence' that underlie many of our understandings in relation to sexual practices and drug use among the young, providing a more complex view of the transition to adulthood viewing it as socially and culturally driven, rather than simply biological.

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